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Systems of Temperature

If we are going to talk about temperature, we need a system. Common systems are:
tex2html_wrap_inline62 Fahrenheit: lousy for scientific use.
tex2html_wrap_inline62 Centigrade: 0 tex2html_wrap_inline87 C - 100 tex2html_wrap_inline87 C
tex2html_wrap_inline62 Kelvin: same degrees as Centigrade; but zero is absolute zero. All molecular motion stops. ``Atoms would lie on the floor like marbles''.

Some temperature in the Kelvin system:
0K - ABSOLUTE ZERO!!!
77K - Temperature of liquid nitrogen
290K - temperature in this room
373K - water boils.



Steve Spangler
Wed Aug 25 11:21:43 CDT 1999